Gospel Voices in and for the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod

2015

Pr. Dean Lueking, Pastor Emeritus, Grace Lutheran Church, River Forest, Illinois January 28, 2016 This is the third article on the advisory role of the Synod. It is important because the court case cited below demonstrates that a civil court has ruled that Article VII of the Constitution of the Synod takes precedence over the…Read more →

Pr. Eugene Brueggemann Pastor Eugene Brueggemann served in parish and campus ministries as a member of the Missouri Synod for fifty-five years. He has an abiding interest in the history of that Synod and has written extensively on its historical development since the 1973 New Orleans Convention. Ed. One of the most important questions before the…Read more →

Pr. Gene Brueggemann Heresy is a teaching which has the venom of the Serpent in it to poison the wellspring of the church’s teaching and life: the gospel of God’s gracious redemption of humankind revealed most clearly and convincingly in the life, death and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth, the Word made flesh. Luther and…Read more →

The article below is reprinted from the March 1971 issue of Concordia Theological Monthly (CTM) since it deals with a crucial question now facing the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod. (Ed.) CTM VOL. XLII, MARCH 1971 The Binding Nature of Synodical Resolutions for a Pastor or Professor of The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod Arthur C. Repp, Vice-President of…Read more →

Robert Schmidt The carnage in Paris touches a deeply felt need in most of us for revenge, or some sort of action to retaliate. France’s Hollande called it an “Act of War.” Might not a broad coalition of nations root out that violent, cowardly, barbaric group called ISIS? Yet, as we are informed, ISIS seeks…Read more →

Editor’s Note: In his recent “missive” to the “2013 convention delegates and other friends” President Harrison indicates that he has appointed a group to develop revisions to the current LCMS procedures for addressing dissent within the church body. Because Rev. Dr. Matthew Becker was twice found not to be guilty of advocating false doctrine when…Read more →

Robert Sylwester I’m a lifelong member of the LCMS. All of my formal education through my undergraduate degree was in LCMS schools. I spent 16 years as a teacher in LCMS elementary schools and at a synodical college. Since 1968, I’ve been on the faculty of the University of Oregon, where my focus was on…Read more →

Foreword Through an ecclesiastical technicality the Rev. Dr. Matthew Becker has been expelled from the clergy roster of the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod. Yet everyone knows that President Harrison and the most conservative members of the Synod have wanted him out because Dr. Becker wanted an open discussion on the subject of creation and…Read more →

The Rev. John George Huber, D. Min., John Huber is a member of the Board of Directors of the North American Academy of Ecumenists, a member of the Faith and Order Commission, Southern California Ecumenical Council, and the founding pastor of University Lutheran Church, La Jolla, at UCSD. He served there between 1963 and 1994….Read more →

By Edward H. Schroeder [Printed in Concordia Theological Monthly, 43 (March, 1972), 165-178. Reprinted with permission.] When this essay was published in 1972, its author was a professor of systematic and historical theology at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis. In this article, he argues that the concept associated with the term “orders of creation” in current Missouri Synod discussions of…Read more →